- Source: Lillian Bagala
Lillian Bagala is a regional director of Irise International, East Africa and a director for the Uganda Youth Network . She has been part of the Technical Working Committee for USAID – CORE Initiative to review and evaluate proposals and pioneer member in establishing the AFRiYAN - Africa Youth Adolescent Network for sub-Saharan Africa constituted by UNFPA to respond to sexual Reproductive Health issues of young people. She established the Period Equality Network which brings together 85 member organizations across East Africa that champion menstrual health and hygiene work to engage in collective advocacy.
Education
Lillian Bagala attended Makerere University, from which she earned a Bachelor of Arts in social sciences, specializing in social work, political science, and psychology. She then earned a post-graduate diploma in project planning and management from Uganda Management Institute.
Career
Bagala was part of the team from Ministry of Gender, Labor and Social Development Uganda that conducted a research on the Situation Analysis of Child Poverty and Deprivation in Uganda together with UNICEF, Uganda, Economic Policy Research Centre, Uganda.
Achievements
She was successfully nominated to join the Core Group of the Global Menstrual Health Collective
See also
Violet Kajubiri
Noerine Kaleeba
Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka
Cleopatra Kambugu Kentaro
Katie Kibuka
Jane Frances Kuka
Gertrude Kulany
Primah Kwagala
Leilah Babirye
Edith Mary Bataringaya
